It’s one of the Royal family’s best-kept secrets – a vast, majestic, pristine white beach that sweeps along the dunes as far as the eye can see, beneath Britain’s most westerly inhabited point. This ...

If you have a fear of flying, you may want to avoid a visit to the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. Barra airport, which first opened in 1936, has just been judged one of the world’s most ...

THE world’s only regular beach runway has been shortlisted in a competition to find the planet’s most scenic airport. Barra Airport in the Outer Hebrides has been selected in a competition which sees ...

It is the world's only regular beach runway and now Barra Airport, in the Outer Hebrides, is going for gold against the home of this year's Winter Olympics. The tiny Scottish hub has been shortlisted ...

07:30, Thu, Jul 7, 2016 Updated: 07:36, Thu, Jul 7, 2016 Far off the west coast of Scotland is an archipelago of hundreds of tiny islands called the Hebrides. One of the more remote of these far-out ...

The recent story on the Outer Hebrides by Richard Webber provoked an astonishing response from readers keen to add their comments. Here are a selection of the best. You don't have to stay on Barra to ...

Police in the Western Isles have issued "important advice" for visitors to Barra and Vatersay ahead of the tourist season. The local force has advised tourists visiting the islands that they do so ...

FOOTIE starlet Matthew Davidson is making 320-mile trips from his island home to play for Greenock Morton. The schoolboy, 10, flies to and from Barra in the Hebrides twice a week for training and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Kind kayakers filmed themselves rescuing a dolphin recently. This footage – and its fancy soundtrack – show the moment a dolphin that had become tangled in seaweed helped free by three people paddling ...